After seeing the snow monkeys at Yudanaka, I took an afternoon shinkansen from Nagano to Tokyo.
Japan Rail’s equivalent of Sky Mall, “Train Shop,” is like a glossy fish market in your lap. It sorta smells like it too (though this smell is probably from the last reader’s bento lunch).
Ah, an […]
On Friday, January 27, I woke up before 7:00 am at the inn in Nagano. When I arrived the day before, I spent some time talking over tea with one of the inn staff about the area. He told me about the monks’ procession into the Zenko-ji temple in northern Nagano, just a few blocks […]
I left Kyoto in the morning on Thursday, January 26 on the limited express train to Nagano. Although Kyoto and Nagano are linked by the shinkansen, one has to change trains in Tokyo, which is out of the way to the southeast. So although the shinkansen is much faster, the trip ended up […]
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